X-ray diffraction measurement of glass content in fly and slags

✍ Scribed by Mark van Roode; Esther Douglas; Raymond T. Hemmings

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 616 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-8846
• DOI: 10.1016/0008-8846(87)90101-3

✦ Synopsis

Refereed) (Received Aug. 25; in final form Dec. 2, 1986) The purpose of this study is to develop an accurate procedure for measuring the glass content of some mineral wastes to assist in predicting their behaviour in concrete.Several X-ray diffraction methods were used for analyzing the source materials of this study. The present investigation involves only a quantitative X-ray diffraction (QXRD) method which is used to compute the mass percentages of s-quartz, mullite, magnetite and hematite, and the glass content by difference.The technique was improved in the course of this study.Glass contents determined with this method ranged from 53.5 to 94.5 per cent.